by admin | Apr 15, 2009 | Donations, General news
This evening David McNally, First Responder Manager for NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) visited the team to officially hand over four Cardiac Science FirstSave AED G3 defibrillators (AED = automated external defibrillator). These four latest generation AEDs are to...
by admin | Apr 13, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Tonight at 19:48 Hrs, North West Ambulance Service (Greater Manchester) paged the team for assistance with a rope swing faller accident in Worsley Woods, Worsley. A full Team Call Out was paged at 19:54, by which time some team members were already at our Ladybridge...
by admin | Apr 12, 2009 | Donations, General news
Whilst finishing up on the weekends busy admin our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes, received a surprise visit from Patrick McDonough, the Bolton Wireless Club Training Officer, with his youngest son. Patrick brought with him a kind letter of thanks, thanking Team Callout...
by admin | Apr 12, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 14:31 today the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary requesting in turn that we contact the Ambulance service regarding a need for our assistance. We established from NWAS Lancashire that the team was required to assist NWAS Lancashire with the reports of a...
by admin | Apr 11, 2009 | General news
Whilst on the Rivington Pike Fell Race Safety Cover today, the team was visited by the Mountain biker, Mr Alan Thompson, who was involved in our incident 11/2009 on 17th January 2009. He explained that he had been passing some horse riders and became unseated injuring...